More than about the daily life of a specific person, the colorful gouaches of “Las Manuelas” series and the large-format drawings selected for this exhibition tell us about history, about how it is currently unfolding and how it might unfold, about colonialism and cultural transfers between what is called the global North and the global South. They talk about moments in translation. About sexuality and intimacy, the body of others and one's own in a social, economic and political context, and the entanglements to which these bodies are exposed in their interrelationship with each other. Last but not least, the drawings speak of emotions as symptoms of a time, as signs of our time. Like an infectious disease, the drawings spread through the Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina, entering into dialogue individually or in groups with selected exhibition objects and their historical and social contexts. Once more obviously, once more subtly. They also confront the supposed credibility and universality of natural science, the Museum of Medicine, an institution where knowledge is defined, and the former Palace of the Inquisition, an institution of social control and power, when a pathology becomes an art form. Photo credits: Larissa Loza & Mario Ponton.